![]() Let’s dive in, shall we? Bruce Shepherd – The ‘Swingularity’ series by Cooper S BeckettĪnyone who has read these books will be unsurprised to know I have a huge character-crush on Bruce. ![]() Because Fifty Shades of Grey is all well and good, but Christian Grey is fundamentally a misogynist and a rapist – literally the embodiment of toxic masculinity in sexy-pants, richer-than-God, sold-100-million-copies packaging. ![]() And this is a sex blog, after all! So in celebration of International Men’s Day, I wanted to share with you some of my favourite examples of positive masculinity, as portrayed in erotica. They’re a symptom of patriarchy, the fucked up system under which we all live, and which also harms men – in different ways to the ways it harms women, sure, but harm nontheless.īut plenty of better writers than me have already said all of these things much more eloquently than I have. What I don’t believe, however, is that feminism – or women – are responsible for these issues. ![]() ![]() There are tonnes of really important issues affecting men today – from lack of mental health support which leads to a much higher suicide rate for men, to male victims of rape or domestic violence going unacknowledged. As a feminist, I’m in favour of many of the aims of International Men’s Day. ![]()
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